Lyra is, nothing special. Well, at least, that's what she wants everypony to think. So what happens when financial problems force her to live with a pony with the same problems? Personally, I have no clue.

One changeling has decided to use his talents to help others heal, and has chosen Earth as the place where he can make the greatest difference. Today, however, will be a little more personal than usual.

What do a globetrotting archaeologist, a time-tossed samurai, and six magical multicolored ponies have in common? Not much! But when a magical gem and sheer coincidence throw them into a strange new place seemingly formed out of the worst aspects of each of their worlds, they're going to have to work together to get home- while they still have homes to get back to!

(Rated T for violence and gunplay.)

Now sporting its very own TV Tropes page!.../>This story started as a half-hearted NaNoRiMo project and an effort to break through some writer's block on other projects. It's also a major departure from my typical type of writing- written in third-person omniscient rather than third-person subjective (which is not an easy transition to make). It's certainly not my first piece of fanfiction, but it's the broadest crossover I've ever attempted, and getting all of the characters to stay true to form while interacting with each other is something of a challenge. But hey, how do we learn if we never challenge ourselves?

A minor note here- I've taken a bit of liberty with the powers of earth ponies. They've been said to have "a connection with the earth", and I've taken that to mean the ability to sense things about the terrain around them.

I was... not expecting quite that overwhelming a reaction when I put this up, let alone being a featured story. Just a short update here- Chapter 2 has cleared Phase 1 (finished but awaiting revision) at a relatively beefy 12,835 words (to be fair, it was 40% finished when I posted Chapter 1). I like to spend a couple of days after finishing a chapter to think it over, smooth up any rough spots and see what new ideas jump into my head; I call this Phase 2. Phase 3 is convincing myself that it doesn't suck and getting myself to actually put it up; this will probably be concluded between Wednesday and Friday.

This is great! I love cross-overs and this is another favorite from the brony community. You also gave a fantastic way for how they came together, a reality hiccup. I will gladly read this entire thing.

I love all kindsa crossovers (Except the ones where it's like a merged universe i.e. WH40K pony crossover where they have everything WH40K-ey 'cept that they're all ponies. I swear I might as well be reading a WH40K fanfic with hooves and pony puns.) and this one looks very interesting. Not a lot of grammar or spelling mistakes caught my eye, and the concept is awesome. I can't wait to read more of it and find out the main conflict.

64317 You posted a well written story that is a crossover of three of the most epic series ever and is a very good length and DIDN'T expect a big response? Sir, you need to see a psychiatric professional.But not until this story is done.And no cop outs!

There's no word that I can think of that can properly describe this premise. Combining one of my favorite movies series' of all time, the show I was addicted to as a kid, and the show I'm addicted to now into a working thing is very ingenious. Awesome.

A few technical tidbits:Putting a series of dashes centered in the middle of the page is more common for scenes and breaks than... Whatever you're doing. You definitely have the scenes and characters explained well enough that we shouldn't need two different kinds of breaks to determine what we're looking at.You use underlines a few times where italics would probably look a bit better.

Obviously neither of these things are going to effect this story to the point where I don't want to pick you up and hug you for writing this oh god thank you so much you're amazing

64966 The dash thing is a habit I picked up from posting stories on Fanfiction.net. The site tends to eat plain dashed lines for some reason, and it's left one of my stories there without section dividers, which didn't help the look any (Note to self: get around to editing that at some point). You may be right about the second part of that, though, and I'll keep that in mind.

I had my doubts, since these things are three of my favorite things. Another of my favorite things is well-written, interesting prose featuring strong characterizations... rarely found in multiple-crossover fanfiction. You, sir, have managed to mix all of these favorite things into one magnificent pre-Christmas present.

Take my praise and admiration. Take all of it, if only it will help you release the next chapter even a moment sooner.

Have you ever looked at something and decided there was something you didn't quite like about it, but you couldn't figure out what? I'm sort of hitting that here. But... there comes a time you have to fling your little fledgling from the nest, and see if it catches the updraft of love or splatters upon the cold, hard cement of indifference.

Very nice! I really enjoyed this chapter, the only thing I found to criticize is a few (very minor) grammatical errors, and maybe that a chapter this long uploaded in only four days could get everypony's expectations up about future chapters

67625 I love it! Truely the only awkward part was when Twi said “Indy, I've been thinking about what that... thing you said was impersonating someone you knew said,” but that was quickly explained.All in all, this story is keeping me going like